This is a digital anchor chart that uses the acronym CARS to help students evaluate resources.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade Math.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 8th Grade ELA.
In this lesson, students create a multimedia PowerPoint presentation about proper telephone procedures.
Students will use scaffolding to research and organize information for writing a research paper. A research paper scaffold provides students with clear support for writing expository papers that include a question (problem), literature review, analysis, methodology for original research, results, conclusion, and references. Students examine informational text, use an inquiry-based approach, and practice genre-specific strategies for expository writing.
Students learn how to create well defined search strings and to use tools and techniques such as bookmarking, browser filters and search engine preferences to avoid unwanted material. (This four lesson unit on search skills and critical thinking teaches students how to target and specify their online searches to avoid unwanted results, how to judge whether a link, search result or website is legitimate or phony and how to find legitimate sources online for media works such as music videos and movies.)
Students examine the state of the print newspaper industry, then debate its future.
In this lesson, students examine the state of the print newspaper industry, then debate its future.
A teacher's guide to Aldous Huxley's, A Brave New World. Included are chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing prompts, and activities.
A comprehensive teacher's guide to Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. Included are chapter-by-chapter discussion questions, writing prompts, and activities.
A teaching guide for Harper Lee's classic To Kill A Mockingbird. Includes discussion questions, vocabulary, writing and discussion prompts and activities.
In this lesson, students use source cards to create a works cited list for a report.
Students will compare and contrast Times Topics pages with Wikipedia as potential sources of information and use Times Topics pages to tackle classroom research questions.
A handout/tutorial on correct citations. Included in this resource are guidlines for APA, MLA, and Chicago style plus a citation building resource.
This handout will discuss strategies to evaluate secondary printed sources—books, journal articles, magazines, etc.—based on three criteria: objectivity, authority, and applicability to a particular assignment.
A video resource on how to correctly cite information in writing.
A handout/tutorial on plagiarism and how to avoid it in writing.
A video resource on why we cite information in writing.
In the following activities, you will learn the difference between a primary source and a secondary source and identify examples of each type. You will also make connections between the primary and secondary sources Jasmine chooses for her research project on the life of Harriet Tubman.
Students will choose a topic to research that relates to their career path and write paper on that career in Microsoft Word using MLA formatting for the report.